LimmudBoston 2012 Conference Expands for Shabbat
Shabbat: The REST of LimmudBoston
(firmenpresse) - WABAN, MA -- (Marketwire) -- 11/27/12 -- On Sunday, December 2, the annual conference celebrates Jewish lifelong learning with over 100 sessions, concerts, panel discussions and community opportunities. To start off the weekend, LimmudBoston ("Limmud" is Hebrew for "Study") has expanded to include 10 different Shabbat (Hebrew for "Sabbath") experiences -- where Sunday's presenters will be speaking in Greater Boston congregations. Details on all of these Shabbat opportunities may be found at
Friday, November 30, opportunities:
In a historic first, will host a creative and musical service led by rabbis from three different movements. Rabbi Shawn Zevit (Reconstructionist) and Rabbi Hanna Tiferet Siegel (Renewal) will lead a Sabbath service along with hosting Rabbi Leonard Gordon, who is trained in the Conservative Movement.
Joe Rosenstein, author/creator of the Eit Ratzon prayer books, explores the meaning of prayer at . Rosenstein will also speak at the weekly Saturday morning service.
Anne Lapidus Lerner explores, "The Religious Quest of a Secular Writer: The Case of Yehuda Amichai," at after a Shabbat dinner. RSVP requested. 781-861-0300
, is offering a Shabbat dinner where Frederick Lawrence, the new president of Brandeis University will be speaking. Register at:
Rabbi Goldie Milgram, from Philadelphia, will be discussing the transformative spiritual effect doing mizvot (good deeds) in an interactive, all generation Shabbat service at
Saturday December 1, 2012:
Rabbi Shawn Zevit leads the morning service at .
At , Ed Gelb, Director of Camp Ramah of New England, will speak about the living laboratory of Jewish education through the Ramah camp experience.
Rabbi Baruch haLevi of Congregation invites the community to experience his congregation's unique and energetic Shabbat world.
Joe Rosenstein at .
On Saturday evening, Shabbat ends with a concert at . Talented rabbi and musician Shawn Zevit will perform along with Mitch Gordon, Yosef Kottler and Carl Woolf. $15 adults, $12 youth ages 16 and younger, Tickets available through -- or at the door.
"The inclusion of LimmudBoston scholars in area Shabbat services is a perfect start to a conference devoted to lifelong Jewish learning," says Steffi Aronson Karp, founder, LimmudBoston.
Contact information:
Steffi Aronson Karp
617-299-1520
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Datum: 27.11.2012 - 14:06 Uhr
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